When Vonage drops for whatever reason, is there any way to tell short of picking up the phone and not getting a dial tone? I could sit here for hours with no incoming calls before I try to call out and find I need to reboot the Motorola.

BTW -- I'm a new user...over the past three days tech support has answered my calls (4) within minutes. And short of one...um...er...idiot, service has been good.

I've got the Vonage device behind my Linksys WRT54G router after initially setting it up in front--my VPN wouldn't work in that configuration (and I realize that i'm giving up QOS). It's dropped once in 24 hours--and my VPN disconnected at the same time so it was likely a connection glitch....

Let me ask you this... is there anyway of knowing a POTS line is down short of picking up the phone and checking for dial-tone?

If you have a number setup in your Network Availability if your ATA is down then the number you've setup as your Network Availability number should start to ring with incoming Vonage calls.

Mine did early this week when my box went down. I called Vonage and they made a quick little keep-alive setting change on there end which corrected my issue. While the box was down my cell was getting the calls that would have normally gone to my Vonage phone.